This is the story of the first source-to-sea descent of the Congo River, completed by former Royal Marine Phil Harwood. Here’s the blurb from the book: “Canoeing the Congo narrates the journey of Phil Harwood, who undertook an epic five-month solo attempt to canoe the Congo River in war-torn Central Africa. It was a historic […]
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Kayak The Kwanza: June 2017 Updates
Film Festivals Below you can see our updated dashboard from Film Freeway, which is a great tool to submit to hundreds of film festivals and screenplay contests in one simple place. We were one of the 2017 Seven Summits Award Winners in the Mountain Film Festival (category: action sports), which is great publicity for The HALO Trust’s work […]
Talking at The Royal Geographical Society
On 22 March 2017 I had the honour of being invited to give a lecture at The Royal Geographical Society in London about the expedition that Alfy and I completed along the Kwanza River in Angola. I was one of six speakers, all talking about geographical journeys with purpose as part of RGS-IBG’s annual microlectures […]
Kayak The Kwanza in 2017
It’s been a while since the last update. Alfy is now settling into his new job in Hong Kong and I’m gearing up to relocate to Madagascar in August 2017! Here’s a quick update on our plans for the next few months: Translating Film into Portuguese Some people over at the Voz da América – […]
Full Report from The HALO Trust: what your donations were spent on!
In June and July 2016 we kayaked Angola’s River Kwanza, raising over $25,000 for The HALO Trust’s demining work in Angola. Below is a link to the newly released report detailing what the donations were spent on. It is a 17 page PDF, complete with photos. If you do not have time to read the […]
KTK update: links to stories about our trip plus Q&A with Oscar & Alfy
Hello All! It’s been a really long time since I posted an update (apart from the Portuguese translation of our photo essay). I thought this might be a good opportunity to highlight what we’ve been up to. Publications about our Kwanza expedition (so far) We are still in discussions with a number of companies about […]
Um mês na vida do “Kayak The Kwanza”: O que fizemos realmente?
Muito obrigado a Mario Pinho (https://twitter.com/maa_pinho) para a tradução! Desde a nossa volta à Luanda eu tenho vasculhado as filmagens da nossa viagem e pensei que gostariam de ver algumas imagens mostrando o que tramamos (e que estará no documentário). Tentei manter tudo em ordem cronológica. Dsculpem pela qualidade das imagens! No total navegamos 984,9Km. A […]
Angola expedition documentary is finally LIVE (watch it online or head to Luanda International School for the premiere)!
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for: the 50 minute documentary film about our expedition can now be viewed either through our main website www.kayakthekwanza.com or by clicking the link below: For those of you in Luanda, you can watch the film on a cinema-sized screen in a proper theatre by attending the Kayak […]
Update on the documentary
On Friday 5 August I took the train from London down to Southampton to meet up with an old friend, Carl Treeby, who is an experienced film editor. Over the course of 48 hours he did an incredible job of putting together the first cut of our film, which came to 52 minutes run time. […]
Expedition gear reviews: the good, the bad and the ugly
We are thinking of knocking together some detailed reviews for OutdoorGearLab once things calm down a bit, but in the interim here’s a quick overview of what we thought about some of our gear! Highly Recommended 550 Paracord: Held our buggy together and was generally handy on the kayak. Brasher Hillmaster II walking boots: Durable […]